88 Quotes by Mikko Hypponen

This was not a bug; this was something that was needed at the time. It is just bad design, design from another era.

Mozilla's popularity has gone from almost zero to double digits, so they have had to deal with a lot of sudden attention. Since Mozilla has become popular, people have been looking for more vulnerabilities.

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

If systems administrators block these URLs at their gateways, it's not going to break anything.

Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.

I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

Otherwise, it's totally new code. But there's a common idea,

It all comes down to whether the code ends up being shared or not. We have not seen it out on the Internet yet.